Michael LoveNov 17, 2022

Are grad students on here? Seems like it leans toward senior and mid career folks.

Q directed to grad students / postdocs who are checking this out:

What practices/behaviors would make this space useful for you?

How can senior folks best promote your work or interact w you here?

Show threadJillian

@mikelove I’m here (not STEM, but grad student).

Number one need from senior academics: you have to reblog us. ESPECIALLY when we’re critiquing the system. There’s no algorithm for likes. Our ability to disrupt hierarchy and make connection on the bird site was partially due to its leveling/visibility effects. That is harder to establish here.

Nov 18, 2022 at 12:46pmWeb
Show threadJillianNov 18, 2022
@mikelove I think a lot of grad needs would have been better served by staying on Twitter and most are here reluctantly, but even if the site doesn’t crash enough senior academics felt able to/pushed to transition away to “quieter” spaces, so we’ve lost our voice there somewhat anyway.
Show threadJillianNov 18, 2022
@mikelove to that end, I think cultivating a field/focus specific hashtag and using it religiously is a helpful leveler, because senior researchers will get more buy-in, and then grads have a more accessible way to be heard and to find their research community without the benefit of years of networking.